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granulatis et convexis sed paullo inajoribus ; antennis ely- 

 trorum apicem (maris paullo, femin^e vix) superantibus, 

 subtus densissime longius ciliatis : prothorace brevi trans- 

 verso cylindrico baud tuberculato ; elytris in parte antica 

 granulis nonnullis parvis instructis (his minus perspicuis), 

 ad apicem sat recte truncatis. 

 Maris segmento ventrali 2° utrinque area dense brunneo-pilosa 

 instruct© ; hujus margine interior! a segmenti margine 

 anteriori medio ad segmenti marginem posteriorem curvato 

 et hunc (prope marginem lateralem) vix attingenti. Long., 

 5f — 6J 1 ; lat., 2—21 i. 



In the above description I have not specified the position of 

 the glabrous areas on the upper surface because it is impossible 

 to say whether the two examples before me are absolutely free 

 from artificial abrasion, although both have the appearance of 

 being in very fresh condition. A large round humeral area is 

 certainly naturally glabrous, and I suspect it alone is so, the 

 other small glabrous patches being probably due to slight abra- 

 sion. The species is near S. albocinctus, Guer., from which it 

 differs inter alia in not having a continuous white stripe (but 

 only the edging of the external ha'f of the glabrous humeral 

 patch and a spot behind the middle) along the external margin 

 of its elytra. From a Symphyletes which Mr. Gahan confirms 

 me in regarding as albocincius it also differs by its very much 

 shorter and more strongly transverse prothorax, by its head 

 being scarcely concave between the antennc^e, &c. In the male 

 example before me the anterior femora do not bear a spine. 



N. Queensland (Hughenden); given to me by Mr. French. 



RHYTIPHORA. 



JR. maculoseUa^ sp. nov. Fem. Elongata ; minus robusta ; 

 nigro-picea pube fulva et nivea ornata (hac maculas binas in 

 elytrorum lateribus, ilia in capite maculas numerosas parvas 

 et lineas inter antennas circumque oculos in prothorace 

 lineas transversas quatuor in elytris maculas numerosas 

 parvas, formanti), mesosterno utrinque vitta fulva ornato, 

 metasterno ad latera niveo-pubescenti in medio fulvo- 

 maculato, abdomine einereo et fulvo-variegato, femoribus 

 anticis 4 cinereo-pubescentibus posticis fulvo-variegatis, 

 tibiis obscure fulvo-ornatis ; capite sparsim subtilius punc- 

 tulato, supra sat fortiter elevato-convexo, linea longitudinali 

 impresso, clypeo antice truncato ; oculis modicis vix fortiter 

 granulatis (quara R. latifasciatcd, Pasc, paullo minoribus 

 paullo minus fortiter granulatis), lobo inferiori baud latiori 

 quam longiori ; antennis quam corpus vix longioribus, pube 

 cinerea irregulariter variegatis, subtus pilis sat elongatis 



